1,720,958 research outputs found
From Mauka to Makai, Leeward to Windward: Culture-Nature Connection and Pasifika Perspectives on Communication
No full textThis essay explores the interconnectedness of culture, nature, and communication, with a focus on Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) values and practices. It highlights the deep relationship between Indigenous peoples and their lands while exploring the ways in which colonial dispossession has led to the disarticulation of Indigenous communities from their ancestral lands. Using the Hawaiian value of aloha ʻāina (caring for the land) and the Hō‘ālani Framework, this work emphasizes the importance of reconnecting with ancestral places to foster sustainable place-based ways of knowing. Emphasizing genealogical connections, interdependence, responsibility (kuleana), and fulfillment of duty (ho‘okōkuleana), the essay argues for an inclusive, relational approach to communication that transcends human interaction and extends to our relationship with the land and water
Aloha Pedagogy: Weaving Aho as Ways of Knowing
No full textThis article braids Native Hawaiian ontology, Indigenous approaches to the critical study of education, and the author’s own reflections to advance a decolonizing approach to communication. This entails divesting from the Western assumption of mind-body dualism in favor of privileging a form of embodied knowledge that includes feelings, the senses, and intuition through artistic forms such as hula, oli (chanting), and storytelling
Recommended from our members
Aloha Media: Negotiating Kānaka Maoli Representation And Identity In Television, Film, And Music
No full textIn her work on research and Indigenous communities, Māori scholar Linda Tuhiwai Smith (1999) points out that academic research is a site of contestation, struggle, and negotiation between the West and Indigenous people, and lays the groundwork for Indigenous researchers to write from a cultural perspective that serves their home community. Hawaiian cultural protocols serve as guidelines for my research. This dissertation, then, is simultaneously a critique of settler colonialism in Hawaiʻi and on screen, and as Foucault (1980) puts it, “an insurrection of subjugated knowledges.” (p.81)—an act of decolonial, Indigenous, and anticolonial thought. In this dissertation I argue that Kānaka Maoli speak in a variety of ways, using a variety of mediums, while still living in a colonized world. In Chapter 1, I provide a literature review of the continual oppression and colonization of Native Hawaiians, as well as past research of stereotypes about Hawaiians in media. In Chapter 2, I discuss my positionality as a Kānaka scholar, summarizing my theoretical and methodological approach to this project. After laying the framework for this dissertation, Chapters 3, 4, and 5 are case studies of corporate produced and Indigenous produced mediated texts in television, film, and music. Chapter 3 reviews how Hawaiians are portrayed in television by evaluating the renewed Hawaii Five-0 series and Native owned ʻŌiwi TV network. Film contexts are observed in Chapter 4, analyzing the Disney film Moana and the recently debuted film by Native Hawaiian filmmaker Chris Kahunahana, Waikiki. In Chapter 5, I analyze two songs written by Native Hawaiian artists, Rise Up by Ryan Hiraoka featuring Keala Kawaauhau and #WeAreMaunaKea by Sons of Yeshua. These songs were written in protest of building a telescope on the sacred mountain Mauna Kea. Finally, Chapter 6, summarizes and connects all case studies to the overarching idea of aloha, while also envisioning what works like this can do in transforming the academy and pedagogy.Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.
In Love With Cancer: Netflix Portrayals of the Cancer Experience
Full text linkCancer is a common cause of death in the United States. With such prevalence, it is not surprising that the cancer experience is the focus of many films over the years. Cancer is depicted both in mainstream feature films as well as other venues of viewership including online platforms (i.e. Netflix). Little research has explored the representation of the cancer experience in these mediums. This paper seeks to conceptualize trends in depicting the cancer experience from available films on the popular streaming service, Netflix, via textual analysis. Three films that we analyzed are, Then Came You (2019), Irreplaceable You (2018), and Her Only Choice (2018), which all belong to the comedy/drama genre. Three themes emerged including stigmatized sympathy and disgust, caretaking and domesticity, and cancer mantras of “live like you are dying” versus “fight to live.” While these types of films may bring awareness or hope to a prevalent health condition, the problem of romanticizing cancer remains
Unrealistic Weeds of Love and Romance: The Korean Drama and the Flower Boy Genre
No full textThe concept of love has intrigued many social critics, and has led them to accuse media of perpetuating unrealistic notions of romance that are unattainable for a healthy and satisfying relationship. Unrealistic expectations of love and romance are a primary cause of relationship dissatisfaction among real couples. It is imperative to critically analyze media sources in order to gain knowledge of how to counter unhealthy notions of romance. Korean dramas typically present a scenario in which strong mutual love and desire between two people come into conflict with existing sociocultural values. The kkonminam (Flower Boy) genre in particular, caters to young women, and focuses mainly on the romantic lives of young adults, making it a prime genre to analyze Korean portrayals of modern romance. This study used Galician’s myths of hegemonic portrayals of love and romance to see if common themes of Westernized “status quo” love can be detected in Korean dramas. The current study was a textual analysis that examined how love and romance is portrayed in Korean dramas, particularly in the Flower Boy genre, and does so by examining two texts, Boys Over Flowers and Flower Boy, Ramen Shop. This study adds to previous literature on hegemonic ideals of love and romance. Ultimately, this study examined ideas of romance in the media to learn what portrayals present themselves in Korean dramas, a form of mass media targeted at a younger audience whose views and expectations on romantic love are still forming, and may be influenced by media depictions
Unrealistic Weeds of Love and Romance: The Korean Drama and the Flower Boy Genre
No full textThe concept of love has intrigued many social critics, and has led them to accuse media of perpetuating unrealistic notions of romance that are unattainable for a healthy and satisfying relationship. Unrealistic expectations of love and romance are a primary cause of relationship dissatisfaction among real couples. It is imperative to critically analyze media sources in order to gain knowledge of how to counter unhealthy notions of romance. Korean dramas (K-dramas) typically present a scenario in which strong mutual love and desire between two people come into conflict with existing sociocultural values. The kkonminam (Flower Boy) genre in particular, caters to young women, and focuses mainly on the romantic lives of young adults, making it a prime genre to analyze Korean portrayals of modern romance. The current study uses Galician’s myths of hegemonic portrayals of love and romance to see if common themes of Westernized “status quo” love can be detected in Korean dramas. The current study examines how love and romance is portrayed in Korean dramas, particularly in the Flower Boy genre, and does so by examining two K-dramas, Boys Over Flowers and Flower Boy, Ramen Shop. This study adds to previous literature on hegemonic ideals of love and romance. Ultimately, this study examines ideas of romance in the media to learn what portrayals present themselves in K-dramas, a form of mass media targeted at a younger audience whose views and expectations on romantic love are still forming, and may be influenced by media depictions
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
- …
